Roman Food

Small kitchen, Pompeii 79CE, with kitchen with cooking utensils. A tripod with cauldron can still be seen in the fireplace, as well as an assortment of pots. Piccola cucina, Pompei 79 d, Pompei ruins, Italy

Pompeii finds: cookware. For cooking.That cooks use to cook with. (I added that last bit myself ;)

Everyday life preserved beneath the ash, by Dr Joanne Berry

Photographed at the Museo Archaeologico Nazionale di Napoli.

Tomb of Eurysaces. Late 1st century BCE. Rome, Tomb of Eurysaces. The tomb of Marcus Vergilius Eurysaces the baker. Eurysaces built the tomb for himself and perhaps also his wife Atistia around the end of the Republic (ca. 50-20 BC). Located in a prominent position just outside today's Porta Maggiore

Aquaculture is the fastest growing form of food production in the world, and in Ancient Rome, keeping fish was always preferred to catching it. Here are some examples of what agriculture writer...

Pompeii 79 AD Baking utensil found not unlike the ones we use today.

Depicts food preparation in ancient Greece (Louvre, Paris)

La Cuenca [Soria], pueblo BIC

Fresque Pompéi

Roman Art. Fishes. Mosaic, 1st century BC. Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy

A Roman food warmer/cooker based on a find from Pompeii made by Christine Eberz.